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Volume 44 - Issue 3 - September 1984

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Prosperity and Misery in Modern Bengal: The Famine of 1943–1944. By Paul R. Greenough. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp. xix, 342. $37.00.
Lillian M. Li
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Slavery, Colonialism and Economic Growth in Dahomey, 1640–1960. By Patrick Manning. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. xviii, 446. $49.95.
Jan Hogendorn
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03 March 2009, pp. 880-881
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Forced Migration: The Impact of the Export Slave Trade on African Societies. Edited by J. E. Inikori. New York: Africana Publishing Company, Holmes & Meier, 1982. Pp. 349. $29.50 cloth; $13.50 paper.
Ralph A. Austen
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03 March 2009, pp. 881-882
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La renta del pulque en Nueva Espana, 1663–1810. ByJosé Jesús Hernández Palomo. Publicaciones de la Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos de Sevilla, No. 262. Seville: Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos, 1979. Pp. xxxv, 503.
Eric Van Young
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03 March 2009, pp. 882-883
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Underdevelopment and Development in Brazil. Vol. 1: Economic Structure and Change, 1822–1947. Vol. 2: Reassessing the Obstacles to Economic Development. By Nathaniel H. Leff. Boston: George Allen & Unwin, 1982. Pp. 251 and 140. $29.50 and $24.50
Samuel A. Morley
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03 March 2009, pp. 883-885
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Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England. By William Cronon. New York: Hill and Wang, 1983. Pp. 241. $15.95 cloth, $6.95 paper.
Gloria L. Main
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03 March 2009, pp. 885-887
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The Roots of Dependency: Subsistence, Environment, and Social Change among the Choctaws, Pawnees, and Navajos. By Richard White. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983. Pp. xix, 433. $26.50.
Leonard Carlson
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03 March 2009, pp. 887-889
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The First Chouteaus: River Barons of Early St. Louis. By William E. Foley and C.David Rice. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983. Pp. 241. $22.50.
John Haeger
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03 March 2009, pp. 889-890
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History of Agriculture in Ohio to 1880. By Robert Leslie Jones. Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 1983. Pp. 416. $15.00.
Charlotte W. Wells
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Pau Hana: Plantation Life and Labor in Hawaii. By Ronald Takaki. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1983. Pp. xiv, 213. $15.00.
David W. Galenson
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03 March 2009, pp. 891-892
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Public Property and Private Power: The Corporation of the City of New York in American Law, 1730–1870. By Hendrik Hartog. (Studies in Legal History, G. Edward White, Ed.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983. $27.50.
Michael H. Ebner
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03 March 2009, pp. 892-893
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Forts and Supplies: The Role of the Army in the Economy of the Southwest, 1846–1861. By Robert W. Frazer. Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 1983. Pp. x, 253. $22.50.
William R. Hawkins
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Working for the Railroad: The Organization of Work in the Nineteenth Century. By Walter Licht. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. Pp. xx, 328. $27.50.
Naomi R. Lamoreaux
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03 March 2009, pp. 895-896
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Railroads and Land Grant Policy: A Study in Government Intervention. By Lloyd J. Mercer. New York: Academic Press, 1982. Pp. xvi, 268. $34.00.
Frank D. Lewis
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03 March 2009, pp. 896-897
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Metropolitan Corridor: Railroads and the American Scene. By John R. Stilgoe. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 1983. Pp. xiii, 397. $29.95.
John B. Rae
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03 March 2009, pp. 897-898
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The Roots of Southern Populism. By Steven Hahn. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. Pp. xi, 340. $29.95.
Louis Ferleger
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03 March 2009, pp. 898-899
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White Land, Black Labor: Caste and Class in Late Nineteenth-Century Georgia. By Charles L. Flynn Jr Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1983, Pp. xi, 196.
David F. Weiman
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Theirs Be The Power: The Moguls of Eastern Kentucky. By Harry M. Caudill. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1983. Pp. vi, 189. $13.95.
Ann Harper Fender
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03 March 2009, pp. 900-902
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German Workers in Industrial Chicago, 1850–1910: A Comparative Perspective. Edited by Helmut Keil and John B. Jentz. DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, 1983. Pp. viii, 252. $22.50.
Dominic Candeloro
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03 March 2009, pp. 902-903
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Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870–1920. By Roy Rosenzweig. Cambridge, London, and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. xi, 304. $29.95.
Mark Aldrich
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Prosperity and Misery in Modern Bengal: The Famine of 1943–1944. By Paul R. Greenough. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp. xix, 342. $37.00.

Slavery, Colonialism and Economic Growth in Dahomey, 1640–1960. By Patrick Manning. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. xviii, 446. $49.95.

Forced Migration: The Impact of the Export Slave Trade on African Societies. Edited by J. E. Inikori. New York: Africana Publishing Company, Holmes & Meier, 1982. Pp. 349. $29.50 cloth; $13.50 paper.

La renta del pulque en Nueva Espana, 1663–1810. ByJosé Jesús Hernández Palomo. Publicaciones de la Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos de Sevilla, No. 262. Seville: Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos, 1979. Pp. xxxv, 503.

Underdevelopment and Development in Brazil. Vol. 1: Economic Structure and Change, 1822–1947. Vol. 2: Reassessing the Obstacles to Economic Development. By Nathaniel H. Leff. Boston: George Allen & Unwin, 1982. Pp. 251 and 140. $29.50 and $24.50

Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England. By William Cronon. New York: Hill and Wang, 1983. Pp. 241. $15.95 cloth, $6.95 paper.

The Roots of Dependency: Subsistence, Environment, and Social Change among the Choctaws, Pawnees, and Navajos. By Richard White. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983. Pp. xix, 433. $26.50.

The First Chouteaus: River Barons of Early St. Louis. By William E. Foley and C.David Rice. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983. Pp. 241. $22.50.

History of Agriculture in Ohio to 1880. By Robert Leslie Jones. Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 1983. Pp. 416. $15.00.

Pau Hana: Plantation Life and Labor in Hawaii. By Ronald Takaki. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1983. Pp. xiv, 213. $15.00.

Public Property and Private Power: The Corporation of the City of New York in American Law, 1730–1870. By Hendrik Hartog. (Studies in Legal History, G. Edward White, Ed.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983. $27.50.

Forts and Supplies: The Role of the Army in the Economy of the Southwest, 1846–1861. By Robert W. Frazer. Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 1983. Pp. x, 253. $22.50.

Working for the Railroad: The Organization of Work in the Nineteenth Century. By Walter Licht. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. Pp. xx, 328. $27.50.

Railroads and Land Grant Policy: A Study in Government Intervention. By Lloyd J. Mercer. New York: Academic Press, 1982. Pp. xvi, 268. $34.00.

Metropolitan Corridor: Railroads and the American Scene. By John R. Stilgoe. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 1983. Pp. xiii, 397. $29.95.

The Roots of Southern Populism. By Steven Hahn. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. Pp. xi, 340. $29.95.

White Land, Black Labor: Caste and Class in Late Nineteenth-Century Georgia. By Charles L. Flynn Jr Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1983, Pp. xi, 196.

Theirs Be The Power: The Moguls of Eastern Kentucky. By Harry M. Caudill. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1983. Pp. vi, 189. $13.95.

German Workers in Industrial Chicago, 1850–1910: A Comparative Perspective. Edited by Helmut Keil and John B. Jentz. DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, 1983. Pp. viii, 252. $22.50.

Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870–1920. By Roy Rosenzweig. Cambridge, London, and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. xi, 304. $29.95.

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